Trying It All by Christi Barth

Author:Christi Barth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Summer paused in front of the floor-to-ceiling poster behind the reception desk at Satellite Entertainment Radio. Across the top it said All the Naked Men You Want! Her newish friends, the ACSs, were all larger than life. The publicity shot caught them in open-necked shirts, sport coats, and wind-tousled hair on the balcony of the POV bar, with the Washington Monument spearing behind them in what could not have been a coincidental use of a phallic symbol. They were laughing at what had to be an inside joke, because it didn’t look posed or forced; just fun. More to the point, Riley wasn’t wearing his thoughtful, guarded, and watchful expression. He looked relaxed and happy.

Just the way he’d looked in her bed this morning.

And yesterday morning.

The thing about Riley Ness? He had staying power. The man was a lovemaking machine. Tireless. Tirelessly inventive. And every single time he told her to come in that throaty growl, she did. They’d made it to dinner Friday night. Then hadn’t left the bed again until they needed dinner last night.

He’d been true to his word: Riley had started a fire without a match on her balcony. Three different ways. Which was pretty much the hottest thing she’d ever seen. Summer didn’t doubt for a second that this man could keep her well-fed, sheltered, and protected on a desert island, stranded in a blizzard, and everywhere in between. What more could a woman ask for?

Oh, yeah. A man who knew all the words to all of Hercules Mulligan’s songs in Hamilton. When she’d asked him why not Jefferson or Burr? Riley said it was because Mulligan was a badass and those other two were obvious.

A man who spent an hour scrolling through the Web trying to prove to her with a slew of adorable pictures that she should get a corgi. Summer told him she’d never get a pet. Because that required planning for the future. His response had been to tell her that she should plan to have a double orgasm within the next hour.

And she did.

Clearly they’d still done a do-si-do or twelve around how opposite they were. Not just her insistence on no pets. Her insistence on no long-term responsibilities of any kind. No time to waste in a day with his brand of excess caution.

Riley actually made her put her blinker on when nobody was behind her for at least half a mile. She’d been prepared to go ballistic about the lack of necessity and the unnecessary wear and tear on her index finger, for crying out loud. But when those green eyes had focused on her and insisted that her safety was more important than convenience? It was impossible to say no to someone whose every action, every thought, was fueled by the need to keep her safe.

In fact, instead of chafing at her, his constant concern felt like a silken blanket of protection.

“Josh, get in front of us,” Riley ordered.

Finger-combing the blond hair falling over his forehead,

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